Presbyterian Mission Agency sex trafficking Archives

PC(USA) congregation in Minneapolis co-creates a healing space with sex-trafficked neighbors

Posted March 26th, 2024

As womanist theologians, the pastors of Liberty Community Church in Minneapolis are seeking the healing of their Northside neighborhood through co-creating spaces of rest and resistance with individuals victimized by the sex trafficking trade and within a community suffering from the effects of systemic poverty and structural racism.

PC(USA) Stated Clerk asks for prayers for displaced African brothers and sisters

Posted March 15th, 2018

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, Stated Clerk of the PC(USA) Office of the General Assembly, is asking Presbyterians to join in prayer in response to the plight of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

Lament, Challenge and Hope

Posted February 16th, 2017

One evening Dr. Anthea Butler was stopped for driving while black in her late-model luxury car. As a flashlight shone on her boyfriend’s pale face, the police officer asked, “Did you pick her up somewhere?”

Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area

Posted May 13th, 2016

Women’s Space: ministry for the marginalized

In Minneapolis, Kwanzaa Community Church’s Northside Women’s Space is reaching some of the most marginalized people in the community—women and children who are facing homelessness and precarious housing, poverty and unemployment, and those struggling to break the chains of sexual exploitation, prostitution and sex trafficking.